John Jenkins Designs Mounted Woodland Indian with Raised Musket #2

Description

The use of horses was not as common among the Woodland Indians as it was on the Great Plains. However, the horse was often used mode of transportation in the later years of the eighteenth century. The Shawnee tribe in the Ohio Country were known for using horses, with many historical documents making references to large parties of native warriors traveling throughout the upper Ohio Valley mounted on horses. The horse also enabled the eastern natives to become less nomadic by using horses as beasts of burden, and the Indians of the Eastern Woodlands could travel further afield for trading, hunting and to gather sustenance. This allowed native communities to remain in one place longer.